A short tale of language, manipulation and heart-break; romance of a kind.
An infinity pool?...
One had noticed the reference here and there in the relentless, almost daily condo porn in the newspaper advertising. With bigger fish to fry, this little minnow was left well enough alone. This morning's newspaper however brought the question to more prominent attention. Unavoidable longer. The Aristo on Amber Road was completed in November 2013, when keys were presented to owners, many of whom bought from the plan. Shock! Horror! attending that occasion when the missing infinity pool was noticed. No infinity pool anywhere to be seen, high or low. Where was the article promised in all the colourful advertising?... What purchasers were provided instead was an unremarkable squat little square built hard against windows that could not even be cleaned because of limited access. Hard to swallow. One poor Oz banker — "who asked to be known only as Garry" — was a victim. Chap concerned shelled out $2.19m for his penthouse unit after being enticed chiefly by the fetching roof-top pool that was not easily come-by in Singapore. Legal proceedings instituted.
The second appellant Mr. Sharque Said is pictured seated at the rim of the offensive poor substitute displaying a large brochure showing an alluring picture of a long narrow pool at the outer edge of a building. Easy to understand seduction by this enticement of private blue water appended to a tower that merges with the adjacent blue of the sea-front, then at almost touching distance the high empyrean above. Infinite heart-melting imagery. (One thought inevitably of the Marina Bay Sands where the three towers there are capped by a gracefully sinuous pool.)
(Aristo likewise effective, including as it does echoes of the old philosopher, together with the enviable Brahminical target class.)
Straits Times, Home 26 Jan 2015
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